Saturday, May 12, 2007

African plants foot in Episcopal battle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/4797049.html

[Houston Chronicle] 12 May 2007--The Rev. Felix Anyasor was a happy man this week. So was his friend and colleague the Rev. Simon Omoke.

The Nigerian-born Houston ministers had just returned from Virginia, where they celebrated the installation by Peter Akinola of a "missionary bishop" to lead U.S. churches that have broken from the Episcopal Church because of disagreements over homosexuality.

"It was like the first Christian gathering at Antioch," Anyasor said of the installation of the former Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns as bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America.

"When (Antioch) happened, people from all over the world came. The spirit of God fell on them, and they were able to speak in different languages," he said."That's what I saw (in Virginia), too."

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